Table (A.1) Poverty Indices according to Region of Residence, Gender, Sector of Employment, Education Level, and Mode of Living of Head of Household (1990, 1996 ... Nur, E.M. (1992): “On the Political Economy of Poverty: A Theoretical Trail”, Seminar on ‘Combating Poverty: Sudan as a Case Study’, organized by the Social ... in the Exchange Rate of the Sudanese Pound”, Ministry of Finance, National Economy

Figure 5.2—Distribution of households by highest educational attainment and gender of head, all provinces (%) Percent Male Female Source: DHS (2007). ... (Figure 5.2). Nationally, 27.7 percent of women never attended school, whereas only 13.6 percent of the men are in this situation. The highest rates of unschooled ... of residency. In rural areas, more women (73 percent) state that they decide about daily

the relationship between the gender of rural householdheads and poverty in Nigeria. Generally ... Table 5: Poverty by sex of householdheadGender Change between 1996 and P0 P1 P2 P0 P1 P2 P0 P1 P2 Male Female National Source: Result of data analysis ... These are rural-urban location of the household, the geo-political zone, and the gender of the head of the household. In 1996, the national poverty incidence, depth and severity

the povertyrate for the female-headedhouseholds with landholdings of less than 0 ... the povertyrate across household groups, and Table 6 shows the poverty distribution across regions and household groups, with national total povertypopulation (rural ... Table 4. Regional Distribution of Numbers of Households under the Poverty Line Rural Group 1 Per household landholding of less than 0.3 hectare Rural Group 2 Per household landholding of0.3 to 1.0 hectare Rural Group 3 Per household landholding